by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 20, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
This is going to be a tough Christmas for some of my friends. These are friends that lost their spouses sometime this year. This will be the first Christmas without their spouses. It will be rough. . . . almost all survivors experience anniversary reactions. The first...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 29, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
My Bible reading this morning (April 28) was the account of the death and raising of Lazarus from John 11: 1-44. What has always struck me about this passage is that Jesus purposely delayed going to see His sick friend so that Lazarus would die. Jesus allowed His...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 2, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Death & Grief, Jesus, Jesus' Death, Life Issues
It’s funny the things you remember. The first time I went up close and personal to a dead body was in 1968, when I was in Form (Secondary) Two. My grandma (dad’s mum) had died and all her children and grandchildren had to help put on her funeral clothes. I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 9, 2009 | 2009, Afterlife, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
What happens after death? Nothing, according to some. Death is the universal anticlimax to life. So we should “seize the day” or “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (1 Corinthians 15:32 NRSV).” Then there are those who, like the ancient...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 29, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
Singapore’s ‘father of counselling’ Anthony Yeo, who had leukemia, died yesterday from complications. The veteran counsellor and consultant therapist at the Counselling and Care Centre was 60 years old. He was diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 10, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
I miss Roson more than I thought I would. (My cousin died on March 31, 2008 from pancreatic cancer.) In these past three months I have been ambushed often by memories of the good times we shared. I think of the trip Bernice and I made to Toronto the year before last....
